Adult

(2012) Starring Alan Rickman and Mos Def.  The emotional true story of two men who defied the rules of their time to launch a medical revolution, set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow south. Working in 1940s Baltimore on an unprecedented technique for performing heart surgery on "blue babies," Dr. Alfred Blalock and lab technician Vivien Thomas form an impressive team. As Blalock and Thomas invent a new field of medicine, saving thousands of lives in the process, social pressures threaten to undermine their collaboration and tear their friendship apart. NR; 117 min.

(2018) Starring Catherine Keener and Jeanne Tripplehorn. A small-town nurse named Susette Kelo emerges as the reluctant leader of her working-class neighbors in their struggle to save their homes from political and corporate interests bent on seizing the land and handing it over to Pfizer Corporation. Susette's battle goes all the way to the US Supreme Court and the controversial 5-4 decision in Kelo vs. City of New London gave government officials the power to bulldoze a neighborhood for the benefit of a multibillion-dollar corporation.

(2018)  Starring  Kelly MacAgnes, taken for granted as a suburban mother, discovers a passion for solving jigsaw puzzles which unexpectedly draws her into a new world - where her life unfolds in ways she could never have imagined.  Rated R; 1 hour, 43 min. 

Come to the Library’s Puzzle Competition on Friday, February 1 at 7pm!

(2018) Starring Steve Buscemi and Charlie Plummer. Charley, a teen living with his single father, finds work caring for an aging racehorse named Lean On Pete. When he learns Pete is bound for slaughter, the two embark on an odyssey across the new American frontier in search of a place to call home.  Rated R; 122 min.

(2018) Starring Jessica Chastain and Sam Rockwell.  Catherine Weldon, a portrait painter from 1890s Brooklyn, travels to Dakota to paint a portrait of Sitting Bull and becomes embroiled in the Lakota peoples' struggle over the rights to their land. Rated R; 1 hour 41 minutes.

This is the first in a series of monthly meetings to discuss Afro-American literature, led by Ralph William Boone*. The first book to be discussed will be Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Copies of the book are available at the Library for checkout.

Praise for Between the World and Me...

Almost everyone has heard of Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, yet few have actually read it.  Ralph William Boone, adjunct lecturer in English and Russian Literature at City University of New York, will examine how the images of African Americans established in Uncle Tom's Cabin remain with us today. 

As signs of climate change become increasingly intense, there is an urgent need to change the way we heat our homes.  Michael Helme, Bill Makofske and members of Sustainable Warwick, along with Energize New York and local contractors, will explain the benefits of home heating and cooling with heat pumps -- both air-source and geothermal.  Recent technological developments make it increasingly cost-effective to run heat pumps off solar- or wind-powered electricity.  If you are considering building a new hom

He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.  (Caesar, Act I, Sc. 2)

A charismatic war hero on the brink of kingship, Caesar is celebrated by the people of Rome – but mistrusted by some of his closest friends, who fear his popularity will throw the country into chaos. Plots are hatched and factions emerge, and in the end, 23 daggers and the fall of a few guilty players lead The People to violent justice.

Julie Griffin of the Friends of Griffin's Tavern and the Friends of Fishkill Depot will talk about these significant archaeological sites, their importance to the mid-Hudson during the Revolution, and the continuing efforts to protect them from destruction.  Griffin's Tavern in East Fishkill was the rendezvous for patriots such as Washington, LaFayette and Von Steuben, near the main supply depot for the Continental Army.